If all the world's a stage, then why fill it with utter nonsense? In this wicked satire of epic proportions and theatrical pretensions, an invitation to see the final dress rehearsal of a tragedy proves to be pure comedy.

Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)

Pick Up and Drop Off Location: George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Russian-Jewish emigrate Haskell Harelik arrives at the port of Galveston, Texas in 1909 seeking refuge from his homeland. With only his banana cart in tow, Haskell finds compassion and friendship from an unlikely couple, falls in love, and creates a pastoral life for his family. About The Immigrant, USA Today said “the scenes evoke the rural era with the firm-handed clarity of a Jewish Horton Foote … they glow.”Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Race. History. Power. Zoe, a black student at an Ivy League University, visits her white professor’s office hours to discuss her thesis about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. In this riveting two-person drama, a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent and dangerous contemporary debate. “Scintillating,” raves Peter Marks in the Washington Post. “The story of America, it seems, is destined to be wrestled over to the bitter end.” Kimberly Senior (Disgraced on Broadway) directs.

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Common Ground by Crossroads Theater Company

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State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ

CO-PRESENTED BY STATE THEATRE NEW JERSEY AND CROSSROADS THEATRE COMPANY

Join us for a unique concert that celebrates the holiday seasons in and around the month of December. This co-production between the State Theatre and the Tony Award®-winning Crossroads Theatre Company features local choirs, Broadway talent, and community organizations including Gospel choirs, South Asian Dance, and more! Featuring the Youth Choir of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, Abundant Youth Dance Troupe, JP Stevens South Asian Dance Troupe, Rutgers Liberated Gospel Choir, and the Body & Music School from Piscataway. “We are honored to partner with Crossroads to celebrate the diversity of our community during this holiday season," said Sarah Chaplin, President & CEO of State Theatre New Jersey.

Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)

Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Shalimar Restaurant, 349 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Camino Real by Tennessee Williams

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Rutgers Theater Company, New Brunswick, NJ

Williams’s phantasmagorical play is set in a plaza of a teeming tropical seaport where the rules are not always clear and the dangers real. A young, idealistic boxer stumbles into a world of figures from history and literature, artists and criminals, tyrants and idealists, the poetic and the banal, in a fever dream that Williams called “a prayer for the wild of heart kept in cages.”

Content Advisory: The show has adult language and themes. If it were a movie it would be rated PG-13

Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)

Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Levin Theater, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start

Join stART for BACK to THE REAL at Crossroads Theater Company on tour at Rutgers VJM Theater.

Produced by Crossroads Theater Company

Set in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Back to the Real – a smart and insightful play about a brother and sister along with their respective girlfriends navigating this new political reality – confront their own identity concerns with respect to racial and sexual identity. However, a recent genealogy discovery impacts several aspects of the house-hold including romantic relationship as well as tolerance in spiritual houses of worship.

Date of Event: Sunday, May 20 (2:00pm – 6:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Friday May 18. Bring Form and Money with you.

Join stART for FAUST at Rutgers Theater Company Mason Gross School of the Arts

Produced by Rutgers Theater Department

Considered one of the most important works of world literature, based on an old German folktale about the substance and fragility of humanity. A dissatisfied scholar sells his soul to a roguish stranger in exchange for unlimited knowledge and self-gratification. What could possibly go wrong?

Date of Event: Saturday, March 26 (1:30pm – 6:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY March Bring Form and Money with you.

Glenis Redmond believes that a Teaching Artist is a person that has the ability to translate their art form educationally, while simultaneously inspiring and empowering both teachers and students to experience and practice their art form.

Date of Event: Wednesday, March 7 (5:00pm – 6:30pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: State Theatre Administrative Offices, 40 Livingston Avenue, 3rd Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)Cost: $5 total!! This includes food and workshop Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY March Friday March 2! Bring Form and Money with you.

Captain Rob Wellman's perfect life starts to unravel when a fellow veteran seeking justice shows up threatening to expose a hidden past. From the author of last season’s American Son, this probing drama shines a light on how America honors its veterans, the corrupting effect of awards and commendations, and questions what it truly means to be a hero. American Hero joins American Son and a yet-to-be titled new work to create a trilogy of plays that explore American injustice. American Hero is the recipient of the Steinberg Award Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association.

NOTE: This production has strong content and adult themes.

Date of Event: Feb 10 (12:30pm – 5:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Feb 8. Bring Form and Money with you.

Date of Event: Saturday January 6 (12:00pm – 4pm) (Drop off: Zimmerli Art Museum, 11 Hamiton Street, New Brunswick, NJCost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and workshop Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY January 5! Bring Form and Money with you.

The only American Repertory Ballet performances featuring a live orchestra and choir!

American Repertory Ballet brings the beloved classic Nutcracker to the stage with Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, stunning sets, thrilling choreography, and a cast of more than 100 performers. A holiday tradition for more than 50 years, ARB’s is one of the longest continuously running Nutcracker productions in the nation. Directed by Artistic Director Douglas Martin, ARB’s professional company will be joined by select students from Princeton Ballet School to tell the story of a young girl named Clara and how a mysterious gift from her Uncle Drosselmeyer brings about enchanted dreams and fantastical scenes. ARB’s Nutcracker is a perfect holiday treat for your entire family!

Date of Event: Sunday, December 17 (12:00pm – 3:30pm) (Drop off: Filippos Pizza, 336 George Street. New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Pick location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. We will meet at Filippos for lunch and then walk one block to the theater. Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY December 14! Bring Form and Money with you.

Tells the tale of five Muslim women on the pilgrimage known as the Hajj. When their bus breaks down miles short of their destination, tempers flare and the women are tested in unexpected ways.The Mecca Tales explores the power of ritual and redemption, and what it means to be an American Muslim woman.

Date of Event: Saturday, November 11 (1:00pm – 6:30pm) (Drop off/Pick location: Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant, 88 Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. We will travel by Bus to Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ.Locations: Dashen Ethiopian Restaurant, and Crossroads Theater Company at Middlesex County College Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch, transportation, and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY November 6! Bring Form and Money with you.

Playhouse favorite Joe DiPietro (The Second Mrs. Wilson, Clever Little Lies and The Toxic Avenger) returns with a fresh, new, contemporary look at his record-breaking off-Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change – exclusively for George Street Playhouse patrons! The world of dating has evolved, and this newly revisited musical will tackle modern love in all its forms. From the first date, to marriage, children and the twilight years, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change follows the arc of relationships in insightful and hilarious ways.

Date of Event: Sunday, October 15 (12:00pm – 5:00pm) (Drop off/Pick location: 371 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. We will travel by Rutgers Bus to the playhouse location in New Brunswick. Locations: Indochine Restaurant, and George Street Playhouse Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket. Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY October 12! Bring Form and Money with you.

The year is 1905. A young, single African American seamstress is supporting herself by creating exquisite lingerie for wealthy Manhattan clients. When a letter arrives from a stranger, it awakens a desire within her that leads to the love she yearned for, but is nothing like she expected. It is a deeply moving tale of one woman’s discovery of her own empowerment.

Date of Event: Saturday, May 13 (12:45pm – 6:45pm) (Drop off/Pick location Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick. Participants must arrive on time so we don’t miss our train!! Locations: McCarter Theater, Princeton NJ Cost: $5 for ticket and lunch + $10 for Train Ticket = $15 Total Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY MAY 8! Bring Form and Money with you.